https://www.neowin.net/news/janet-jackson-song-is-now-an-official-exploit- for-w indows-pcs/
Yesterday, we learned via Microsoft's Raymond Chen that back in the olden days of Windows XP, it was discovered that a music video of a song called Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson was causing Windows PCs to crash. This is because the song in question contained resonant frequencies for 5400RPM hard drives which even crashed PCs in vicinity while the song was being played. While OEMs eventually fixed the issue, security agency MITRE has now declared it as an official exploit.
Yesterday, we learned via Microsoft's Raymond Chen that back in the
olden days of Windows XP, it was discovered that a music video of a song called Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson was causing Windows PCs to crash. This is because the song in question contained resonant frequencies for 5400RPM hard drives which even crashed PCs in vicinity while the song
was being played. While OEMs eventually fixed the issue, security agency MITRE has now declared it as an official exploit.
https://www.neowin.net/news/janet-jackson-song-is-now-an-official-exploit- for-w indows-pcs/
Yesterday, we learned via Microsoft's Raymond Chen that back in the olden days of Windows XP, it was discovered that a music video of a song called Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson was causing Windows PCs to crash. This is because the song in question contained resonant frequencies for 5400RPM hard drives which even crashed PCs in vicinity while the song was being played. While OEMs eventually fixed the issue, security agency MITRE has now declared it as an official exploit.
Nightfox wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-
Interesting.. I've had an MP3 of that song for a very long time, and I probably played it back in those days - but I've rarely had a 5400RPM
hard drive.
I thought 5400 was a standard for a long time. I remember getting some of the first lightweight Dell D430s, and they had a 1.8" 4200 RPM drive.
I've normally built my own desktop PCs, and don't buy laptops very often (it seems the slower RPM drives are more common in laptops). When I build a desktop PC, usually I'd choose a 7200RPM hard drive.
Traditionally, I tend to put fairly small and old drives in the desktop PC's and add relatively slow large drives to the NAS or file server storage. Usually on the theory that the network speed will be the determining speed factor not the HD's. 7200's usually use more power too, while that never used to be a problem, it kinda is now... I've cut back a lot of my active hardware and tried to select less power hungry storage.
Makes sense. I suppose I've often erred on the side of speed (even for large drives). I have a PC that I use as a media server (among other things) using Plex Media Server. Lately, I've been fairly regularly watching TV shows with it with someone else using Plex's "Watch Together" feature. I have a rotating HDD in that PC for movies & TV shows, but to help ensure it can support streaming with more than one person (in case they happen to be watching something else from my Plex server while I'm also watching it), I wanted to help ensure it can handle that.
For my main desktop PC, one thign I've been doing lately is video transcoding, and often I'll re-mux audio tracks into videos, which requires a lot of disk I/O. When I built my current desktop PC in 2019, initially I put a 5400RPM drive in it, thinking I was going to mainly use
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